So Jim Himes is on bluesky praising trump's nominee for permanent DNI head

[Florida Dem]

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I fired off a scathing email to Hines' office earlier today after seeing his breathless support for the woefully unqualified, election denying conspiracy theorist Clayton.

What's sad is that as a former fed who worked for various agencies including DOD and DOJ, I am vastly more qualified either Clayton or Pulte having held multiple high-level security clearances and more exposure to national security/intelligence issues. And I would definitely not be qualified for the role of DNI. But I'm one hell of a lot more qualified than these two clowns. The DNI should have a long record of experience in the intelligence and national security theaters.

I had always liked Himes up until now. It's a bizarre and absolutely inexcusable position for him to take. Everyone knows Trump wants to put him in as DNI to come up with fake election conspiracies to try to interfere with the midterms after election day. Himes disgraced himself today.